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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Sean Harrington on the 'ideal' setting for deploying AVs (Episode 89)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The CEO of Optimus Ride discusses his company's strategy of placing self-driving shuttles in campus environments, its plans to raise additional capital and the transition to full autonomy.

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0:00.0

Shift is brought to you by Ricardo.

0:03.0

The Ricardo Mobility Summit is April 22nd,

0:05.0

featuring Ford C. T. T.

0:07.0

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0:12.0

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0:15.5

Presented virtually in conjunction with automotive news.

0:18.4

Go to Ricardo-North America.com to register. Hi everybody.

0:30.0

Hi everybody,

0:30.0

Hi everybody.

0:31.0

Welcome to Shift, podcast about mobility.

0:34.4

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter

0:36.2

at the Automotive News.

0:37.8

Hi everybody, it's Leslie Allen,

0:39.6

editor of Shift magazine.

0:41.4

And it's Alexis St John, covering Tech and suppliers.

0:44.0

Our guest on podcast this week is Sean Harrington, the new CEO at Optimus Ride.

0:49.6

But before we get to Sean, Leslie and Alexa, I want to ask you both about all the headlines

0:55.2

I have seen lately this week about the chip shortage in the auto industry.

1:01.3

There's various plants closing down temporarily.

1:05.0

This seems like the perfect storm.

1:07.8

Alexa, what does this mean?

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